THIS WEEK: your hosts are overly optimistic about their ability to finish covering this show; the whole series starts unraveling at both ends; Van understands nothing; we invent a new character by accident; Sven was unconscious for all of episode 4; you can just BUY labcoats; we’re all very tired, and ALL IS FOR BLACK GHOST.

TOPICS:

Who is Tatsuo Kagura?

The Skull Man (2007) 4-7

We all understand nothing

Ghost trains

Akira, that Warren Statesman-looking dude

Fake labcoats and finding the Voice of God on a cassingle

The Hayato Everywhere System

Alternate history geopolitics are still a nightmare

Mr. Inoue’s Vision and Oops! All Dominoes

My Dinner With Akira

Anime is still bad

Whether there are any other Tatsuos Kagura we should know about

It’s Ishinomori cameo town now

Brain Gear

Maybe don’t join a cult with a bunch of guns

Otomo Has Two Skullm’ns

Van Vogt

ALL FOR BLACK GHOST

Alexa’s audio is a little goofed up in this episode, but we did our best to clean it up. Episode 3 was recorded in the same session, so that’ll probably continue next week. Sorry! We have new equipment now, so stay tuned.